ansible

packaged by Chainguard

Chainguard Container for ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/ansible:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Overview

This image packages the ansible-core distribution built with Python, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. It tracks upstream release v2.21.1 (pinned to commit a45896d98638d94a16c5c3d5ef76d65bf453a09a) and ships the canonical ansible, ansible-playbook, ansible-galaxy, ansible-inventory, ansible-config, ansible-console, ansible-doc, ansible-pull, ansible-vault, and ansible-test CLIs.

The image runs as the nonroot user (UID 65532), bundles ca-certificates-bundle for HTTPS interactions with Galaxy and other services, and includes openssh-client so ansible can drive remote hosts over SSH out of the box.

Docker setup

To make sure you have the latest image version available, start by running a docker pull command:

docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/ansible

Then, run the image with the --version flag to make sure it is functional:

docker run --rm cgr.dev/chainguard/ansible --version

Running a module against localhost

The following command exercises the ping module against the local Python interpreter without needing SSH:

docker run --rm cgr.dev/chainguard/ansible \
  localhost -m ping -c local

Running a playbook

Mount a playbook directory into the container and drive it with ansible-playbook:

docker run --rm \
  -v "$(pwd)/playbooks:/playbooks" \
  --entrypoint /usr/bin/ansible-playbook \
  cgr.dev/chainguard/ansible \
  /playbooks/site.yml

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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